I have hyper thyroid as well and I told my specialist I was pregnant and he switched my prescription from methimazole to P.T.U right away. Otherwise plenty of women have hyper thyroid and still carry to term a normal healthy baby. I wouldn't worry but if you're taking anything for it I suggest you tell your OBGYN and your Thyroid doc.
Ive read in many places that anxiety and hyperthyroid are linked. im wondering if anyone can help me understand that if a hyperthyroid gland can cause anxiety OR the anxiety symptoms are mistaken for the hyperthyroid. i currently am being treated for hyperthyroid & graves disease which has been leveled thru the use of medication but i am convinced i have generalized anxiety. im planning on seeing a doctor about this but just would like to see how the two were linked.
It should be pointed out that, especially in the US literature, the term ‘hashitoxicosis’ is sometimes used to describe an autoimmune thyroid disease overlap syndrome of Graves’ and Hashimoto’s disease.2 In this article the term is strictly limited to the ‘leakage’ symptoms of active Hashimoto’s disease."
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I've had both Hashi's and Graves antibodies simultaneously but I had been diagnosed with Hashimoto's thyroiditis previously.
Too much thyroid medication (especially from pig thyroid preparations such as naturethroid and armour) can cause heart disease. 2 grains is a high dose -- if continued, would divide into 1 grain in am, 1 grain in early afternoon, but levothyroxine is preferred.
Any change in estrogen medications can alter thyroid hormone requirements.
You could ask your doctor to test for thyroid antibodies, just to make sure you really have Graves Disease. The antibodies you need are Thyroid Peroxidase Antibodies (TPOab) and Thyroglobulin Antibodies (TGab) to confirm Hashimoto's. The definitive test for Graves Disease is Thyroid Stimulating Immunoglobulin (TSI)... If you never had that test and it was positive, you can't be sure you have Graves Disease.
Since thyroid disease runs in my family, and I have borderline hyperthyroid tendencies, I always keep an eye on the thyroid board on MedHelp. The folks there are very knowledgeable. You may want to pop in there for some advice as well. Both diseases (FM and Graves symptoms overlap) Make sure you stop back in both places. Take care.
my mother had hyperthyroid/graves disease and goiter... I was tested @13yrs old and was found to have slightly hyperactive thyroid.... well @30yrs old I now have a goiter and 2 nodules.... but when I went back to endo.. they said that they think we never had hyperthyroid that we possibly have a genetic autoimmune disease... they said there are several that can cause a secondary thyroid response.....
I was just diagnosed with hyperthyroid and have lots of antibodies and severe itching of the skin, bulging eyes i am always tired. I am guessing that i have an auto immune disorder but don't know which one? Do you have any clue?
Hello Jen, I suffer from Graves Disease and come from a family with a long history of Thyroid problems. It is possible to have Graves Disease and go from Hyper to Hypo. I am one of those people. Brief periods of Hypothyroidism. When my heart was beating 160 plus a minute and I began shaking like a person with Parkinsons Disease also, after going from 155 Pounds to 112 was I diagnosed with GD. GD is a walk in the park compared to the WRONG choices of treatment I took afterwards.
My mother was diagnosed in her early 40s with graves disease and her thyroid was removed, around the same time she was diagnosed with stage 3-4 colon cancer. I'm aware there are connections between autoimmune diseases and thyroid and intestinal diseases/conditions. As I'm getting older I'm noticing I'm following in the same physiological footsteps my mother did before she was diagnosed.
s patients have been known to actually transition over to Graves Disease over time, when having both types of antibodies (those that destroy thyroid cells and those that stimulate thyroid hormone production) and they become progressively hyperthyroid (not common).
Hmmm ... as I understand it there are cases when people have a combination of Hashimoto's (which can but doesn't necessarily have to lead to symptoms of hypothyroidism) and Graves' disease (which can but doesn't necessarily have to lead to symptoms of hyperthyroidism).
My question is, my hyperthyroid comes and goes. I kept a check on my TSH T3, and T4 every few months. Its very fustrating to be fine for a couple months and then my symptoms go into overdrive and they cycle keeps repeating itself. My symptoms are racing heart, all over shakiness, weightloss ( that I put back on when my levels go normal) some anxiety and diziness at times. My endocrnologist will not treat me for the hyperthyroid because I go fom normal to out of whack.
TSH — typically low in Graves disease
Total or free T4 — usually elevated
Total or free T3 — often elevated
Laboratory tests used to help diagnose Graves disease and distinguish it from other autoimmune conditions may include one or more tests used to detect the presence of thyroid antibodies:
Thyroid stimulating immunoglobulin (TSI) — The presence of this antibody is diagnostic for Graves disease.
Hi, first of all i'm not a Dr. and I definitely think this is something you should address with your endocrinologist but I'm a thyroid disease sufferer myself and here is what i think:
it's important to remember that having hyper or hypo thyroidism does not mean you will exhibit all of the many symptoms that are sometimes associated with the diseases.... for example, i was diagnosed as being HYPOthyroid even though i'm 5'5" and 105 (under weight.
Inflammation, tissues and tumor necrosis can also elevate CPK. Too low a dose of Methimazole could account for under-control of your cat’s hyperthyroid disease and over-catabolism continues, thus elevating CPK.
Potassium is an electrolyte lost from vomiting, diarrhea, or excessive urination. While the most common cause of low potassium is chronic renal failure, low potassium is also associated with hyperthyroid, however, the etiology is unknown.
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